Recent content by Surfdelux

btw, some of my fellow aussie commenters here need to take the blinkers off.

OH jesus I saw this as well and just shook my head. Almost as big a clanger as Hushovd's the other day (from CN): "When asked if he had ever doped, the Norwegian replied, “The only thing I can say is that I know that I'm sitting here with a clear conscience. Meanwhile, people who have...

Why is this Sky thread so long? Can someone summarise the kerfuffle for us? Sky is clean dont you know! That's why they kept Swede Thomas Lövkvist and made him the pillar of the team. Hahahahaha!!! No place for a clean former best young rider there.

No surprise that the Scandinavian's approach is more enlightened than the Australian one. Just compare high school and higher education completion rates and you start to get the answer. I digress. Rasmussen's confession has to be the most interseting one to date after Tyler Hamilton's. Not...

Interesting how McQuaid consistently uses the phrase "....doping in the past". This could be the main sticking point with USADA and WADA. There's just too much evidence to suggest that the problems aren't in the past, and that any serious investigation has to also include current culture...

Thanks, but it was actually the Sky news interviewer who said that they (Sky news) were immensely pround of Wiggins. Tyler Hamilton said very quickly, almost under his breath, "as am I", which I say qualifies as tacit agreememt under the circumstances, but I wouldn't say qualifies as any kind...

Have you got a link?

In his book Tyler Hamiltion, writing before Sky's 2012 TDF win, says that evidence of a cleaner peleton "nowadays" can be found in the fact that single teams no longer totally dominate the TDF, and that individual riders have good, and bad, performance days. Probably the 2011 TDF was his new...

Agree totally. We wont have to put up with him in Hollywood movies at least - terrible actor! Couldn't feign sincerity or remorse if his life depended on it. In fact, couldn't even act being himself. Was reminiscent of rope-a-Dope Phil Anderson under interview.

Best part of Oprah 2nd interview was her saying to LA at the end, that she hoped the moral of this story would be that "the truth will set you free". Must of hurt like hell, you could see it on LAs face. The closing line of Tyler Hamiltons book, LAs arch nemisis. TKO! On Hamiltions book (which...

I just watched the second half of the soap Oprah. Never has it taken so long for two people to say so little. The lies and evasive eyes still in overdrive. This stunt seriously backfired on Lance. Oprah was the clear winner, long term. Armstrong is in the biggest world of trouble, its only the...

In her cbs morning promo interview before the airing, Oprah said that everyone in the room was "mezmerised" by Armstrongs confession. Yeah, mezmerised by how little he actually said and how insincere he was, mezmerised by what a lightweight journo Oprah actually is. A great match for each...

I said the Opera confession will only be a lame warm-up act to soften the public. If there's a real confession and spill of information it will come later in a more formal setting with the authorities, as away from journaists as possible. Agreed that it'll have to be good to to get him a reduced...

Lance wants to confess, because he wont survive life out of the sporting limelight and wants to do the triathlon thing. Being locked and loaded for hawaii IM and not being able compete must have been unbearable. A confession needs to happen if this it to become possible. But confessing will...